Coupa for AI agents

Coupa manages business spend, covering procurement, invoicing, and expenses so a finance team can control purchasing across the whole company. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

Connect Coupa See the 384 actions ↓

Finance and accountingOAuth 2.0MCP + RESTcoupa.com

AUDIT LOG · COUPAPOLICY: acme-support

09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read

coupa.list_comments

List Comments✓ allowed · 212ms

09:41:08 · claude · u_8f2read

coupa.get_item

Get Item✓ allowed · 164ms

09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write

coupa.create_task

Create Task✓ approved · approved by user

09:41:12 · claude · u_8f2destructive

coupa.delete_projects_tasks

Delete Project Task✕ blocked · policy: deny

EVERY COUPA CALL, ON THE RECORD

01 · USE CASES

What agents do in Coupa.

Check an invoice before approval

Check an invoice's details before deciding whether to approve or abandon it.

Add an approver to a requisition

Add an approver to a requisition so it routes correctly before purchase.

Confirm before abandoning an invoice

Confirm before abandoning an invoice, since it removes it from the approval pipeline.

02 · ACTIONS

384 Coupa actions, graded by risk.

Every Coupa action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

113

Look things up. Allowed by default.

coupa.get_item
Get Item
coupa.get_as_ns
Get ASN Headers
coupa.get_api_docs
Get API Documentation Modules
coupa.get_commodity
Get Commodity
coupa.list_comments
List Comments
coupa.query_lookups
Query Lookups
coupa.get_item_image
Get Item Image
coupa.get_user_group
Get User Group
coupa.get_budget_line
Get Budget Line
coupa.get_delegations
Get Delegations
coupa.get_cycle_counts
Get Cycle Counts
coupa.get_project_task
Get Project Task
coupa.list_commodities
List Commodities
coupa.get_riskawarefeed
Get Supplier Risk Aware Feed
coupa.list_obj_comments
List Object Comments
coupa.get_approval_by_id
Get Approval by ID

+ 97 MORE

write

228

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

coupa.create_task
Create Task
coupa.create_fxrates
Create FX Rate
coupa.create_project
Create Project
coupa.update_invoices
Update Invoice
coupa.create_commodity
Create Commodity
coupa.add_contract_term
Add Contract Term
coupa.create_user_group
Create User Group
coupa.update_user_group
Update User Group
coupa.add_comments_to_po
Add Comment to Purchase Order
coupa.create_budget_line
Create Budget Line
coupa.update_budget_line
Update Budget Line
coupa.update_commodities
Update Commodities
coupa.update_requisition
Update Requisition
coupa.add_user_to_a_group
Add User To A Group
coupa.create_lookup_value
Create Lookup Value
coupa.create_payment_term
Create Payment Term

+ 212 MORE

destructive

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

coupa.cancel_external_po
Cancel External PO
coupa.delete_projects_tasks
Delete Project Task
coupa.delete_requisition_line
Delete Requisition Line
coupa.remove_contract_approval
Remove Contract Approval
coupa.delete_a_tax_registration
Delete Tax Registration
coupa.delete_quote_request_task
Delete Quote Request Task
coupa.delete_project_memberships
Delete Project Membership
coupa.delete_specific_po_attachment
Delete Purchase Order Attachment
coupa.remove_a_content_group_on_contract
Remove Content Group from Contract
coupa.delete_specific_contract_attachment
Delete Specific Contract Attachment
coupa.remove_all_content_group_on_contract
Remove All Content Groups from Contract
coupa.remove_all_content_groups_on_supplier
Remove All Content Groups on Supplier
coupa.delete_specific_requisition_attachment
Delete Requisition Attachment
coupa.remove_all_content_group_on_sim_record
Remove All Content Groups from SIM Record
coupa.remove_specific_content_group_on_supplier
Remove Content Group from Supplier
coupa.remove_all_content_group_on_sim_site_record
Remove All Content Groups from SIM Site

+ 27 MORE

03 · HOW IT WORKS

Coupa in three steps.

01Your users connect CoupaThey sign in to Coupa on Arc0 Connect, under your brand, and approve the access you ask for.
02You set the rulesReads run, writes like “create Task” can wait for the user, and “delete Project Task” can be denied outright.
03Any agent can actYour agent calls Coupa through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.

POLICY.TS

await arc0.policies.set('coupa', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_task
  destructive: 'deny',  // delete_projects_tasks
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2

04 · AUTH AND DATA

How Coupa connects.

Users sign in to Coupa on Arc0 Connect and approve the scopes you request. Build with Arc0’s Coupa OAuth app, or bring your own so the Coupa consent screen names you. Tokens refresh automatically, and you can export them whenever you want.

The same Coupa connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH: OAuth 2.0
CREDENTIALS: Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES: Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG: Every call, on every plan

05 · WORKS WITH

Use Coupa from any agent.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Mastra

LangGraph

06 · RELATED

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07 · FAQ

Coupa and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use Coupa with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect Coupa to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Coupa actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect Coupa?

Q03

Which Coupa actions can my agent take?

384 in total: 113 read, 228 write and 43 destructive, such as “create Task”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I stop my agent from deleting things in Coupa?

Yes. Actions like “delete Project Task” are graded destructive. Set destructive actions to deny, or to ask so the user approves each one, and blocked calls still show up on the audit log.

Q05

Can my own backend call Coupa too?

Yes. The same Coupa connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

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Plug Coupa into your agent.

Your users connect Coupa once, under your brand. Your agent gets 384 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan